Select about 10 tasks from the weekly plan to create a daily To Do List. This includes items from your calendar, repeating tasks, action steps for goals and projects, and time for personal development.
- Set priorities with the ABC method, time management matrix, or Return on Investment (cost/benefit analysis).
- Don’t get sidetracked by time wasters.
- Add incoming tasks into the system.
- Plan for tomorrow at the end of the day.
Low tech: Foldable weekly and daily plan form (doc) High tech: Solutions Watch to do possibilities. (I use Remember the Milk) see also Android Apps for Productivity
Forms: To-do List from Samplewords, Day Planner form from Blog to Discovery, more under Work Wonders at Free Tools…and links to more free tools.
Further Reading: No More Bloated To-Do Lists! at Instigator Blog & List of Ways to Ruin a List at Brazen Careerist
I agree with you, except for the last point. I think it sometimes good to just add to dos just as they come to you. IE/ If while you’re working on this project, your realize there is this feature you’d like to add, you can add a task for tomorrow on the day after the that. You don’t necessarily have toc oem up with the following day’s to do list the night before… it can be composed of assks you entered thoughtout the day. I prefer the “high tech” to do lists personally, namely this site called ZoToDo. It’s for daily to do lists… I mean the lots of other sites, and by the way I know that has nothing to do with the point I was making… but I just like it better than some of the other sites and thought I should mention it.
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